‘The Mother of Us All’ Review: Trying to Make Her Voice Heard

Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera about Susan B. Anthony deals with issues that are just as resonant today as they were 70 years ago.

By

Heidi Waleson

Nov. 22, 2017 11:34 am ET

Hudson, N.Y.

‘The Mother of Us All” (1947), by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein, is an opera about a woman trying to be heard above a lot of anarchic noise, and the revelatory production that R.B. Schlather created for the newly restored Hudson Hall, the performance space at the Hudson Opera House, drives home that message in every way....